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No.  7 


COUNTY 

LIBRARY 

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SERUCE 


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An  Emblem  of  Library  Service 

This  is  the  design  of  the  new  standardized  County  Library  Sign.  See  descriptk 

on  next  page. 


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GAYLORD’S  TRIANGLE 


March  1,  1922 


An  Emblem  of  Library  Service 

County,  as  well  as  public  library  workers,  have  long  felt  the  need  for 
an  attractive  and  economical  sign  suitable  for  use  at  any  library  branch 
or  station. 

On  the  first  page  of  this  issue  of  the  “Triangle”  we  reproduce  in  black 
and  white,  the  sign  that  we  have  evolved  after  careful  study  of  the  ideas 
of  librarians  in  many  localities  as  to  wording  and  design.  The  black  and 
white  reproduction,  however,  fails  to  show  the  real  attractiveness  and 
beauty  of  the  five-color  sheet  metal  sign  itself,  made  by  what  is  called  the 
oil  process.  The  sign  is  strong  and  durable  and  absolutely  weatherproof. 
It  is  12x20  inches  in  size,  and  on  one  edge  has  a 2-inch  flange  by  which 
it  can  be  fastened  to  the  outside  of  a building  so  that  both  sides  of  the 
sign  can  be  seen  by  passers  by. 

The  wording  emphasizes  library  service  and  the  fact  that  it  is  free. 
(The  sign  is  also  supplied  for  the  use  of  public  libraries,  the  word 
“Public”  being  substituted  for  that  of  “County”.)  The  drawing  is 
designed  to  emphasize  the  book  in  use,  while  the  words  “Books  Here” 
supplement  all  and  explain  themselves. 

Have  you  ever  thought  how  much  it  would  mean  if  library  stations 
throughout  the  land  were  easily  recognized  as  such  by  a uniform  sign 
which  in  time  would  impress  itself  so  indelibly  on  the  mind  of  the  public 
that  the  mere  sight  of  it  at  a distance  will  immediately  remind  everyone 
of  library  service? 

To  aid  in  impressing  this  sign  or  “Emblem  of  Library  Service”  on  the 
public  mind,  we  are  printing  on  all  county  library  forms  and  publicity 
material  described  in  “The  Green  Book  of  County  Library  Methods,” 
small  black  and  white  reproductions  of  the  poster,  omitting  the  words 
“Books  Here.” 

If  you  have  not  yet  written  for  your  copy  of  the  “Green  Book,”  it  will 
be  sent  you  for  the  asking,  together  with  samples  of  county  library  forms 
which  we  have  prepared  for  general  use.  Even  though  you  may  not  be  a 
county  librarian,  you  will  be  surprised  to  find  how  many  ideas  in  the 
“Green  Book”  are  equally  applicable  to  library  extension  in  a town  or 
city. 

1 Sign,  $2.25,  express  paid. 

5 Signs,  2.00  each,  express  paid. 

10  Signs,  1.85  each,  express  paid. 

25  Signs,  1.70  each,  freight  paid. 

50  Signs,  1.60  each,  freight  paid. 

“Home  Brew”  Within  the  Law 

We  attribute  a recent  increase  in  orders  for  Pressboard  Multibinders 
to  the  article  by  F.  K.  W,  Drury  of  Brown  University,  reproduced  on  the 
opposite  page  by  permission  of  the  “Library  Journal,”  in  Which  publica- 
tion it  first  appeared.  Cutting  down  binding  costs  in  these  H.C.L.  days 
is  an  achievement  of  which  any  librarian  may  be  proud. 

Turn  to  pages  36  and  37  of  our  catalog  No.  24  for  descriptions  and 
sizes  of  the  various  Multibinders  which  we  carry  in  stock.  If  you  want 
to  experiment  with  Mr.  Drury’s  “Home  Brew”  binding,  remember  that 
we  will  gladly  send  samples  without  expense  or  obligation,  if  requested 
on  the  form  on  the  back  page  of  our  catalog. 


March  1,  1922 


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most  infamous  characters 
when  the  readers,  in  the  disgust  and  satiety  pro- 
duced by  a debauch  of  such  literature,  go  to 
^he  reading-room  librarian  and  say  “For  hea 
sake  give  me  a book  about  a saint  or  a 
roXam  sick  to  death  of  those  stupid  male- 
factors/^l^hould  be  the  duty  of  that  librarian 
to  sav^No  rStson  (or  my  daughter,  as  the  case 


Twice-a-month 


proper  sphere  or  virtue  is  the  liv- 
ing world.  Go  out  and  do  good  until  you  feel 
wicked  again.  Then  come  back  to  me;  and  1 
will  discharge  all  your  evil  impulses  for  you 
without  hurting  anyone  by  a batch  of  thoroly 
bad  books.”  Moral:  do  not  listen  to  the  peo- 
ple who  wish  to  purify  public  bookshelves:  they 
are  sitters  on  safety  valves. 


Home  Brew”  Binding  to  Cut  Costs 


Bookbinding  costs  from  1916  to  1920  more 

than  doubled,  and  they  have  not  come  down 
appreciably.  Volumes  of  the  80-cent  size  rose  to 
$2.10;  the  $1.40  size  to  $3.55;  the  $1.75  and  $2 
size  to  $4  and  even  $6. 

To  offset  this  High  Cost  of  Binding,  Mr.  Fison 
devised  his  inexpensive  style  of  magazine  bind- 
ing, as  told  in  the  Library  Journal  for  1 May, 
1921,  p._401. 

At  Brown  we  examined  his  method  and  found 
it  good,  but  felt  it  to  be  desirable  to  have  stiffer 
sides  in  order  to  make  the  volume  stand  up 
more  “on  its  own.”  This  led  us  to  try  the  Gay- 
lord .Multibinder.  At  about  the  same  time  rro- 
Lessor ~ R en e r s on  of  our  College  of  Engineering 
had  suggested  ways  of  doing  a similar  job  for 
his  engineering  periodicals,  and  submitted  a 
sample  stapled  with  wire.  But  we  find  that 
sewing  with  twine  is  working  all  right. 

From  these  varied  sources  we  have  worked 
out  a binding  which  seems  to  satisfy  us  as  well 
as  the  departments,  and  we  are  now  sorting 
our  binding  into  two  classes:  regular  binding 
as  in  the  past  for  the  volumes  most  used;  and 
our  own  “Brown  University  Binding”  or  “Home 
Brew”  for  the  others. 

Our  process  is  as  follows:  After  removing 
the  advertising  matter  (except  for  the  month 
in  which  we  bind  — February)  and  collating 
and  arranging  title-page  and  index  and  any  fly 
leaves  if  necessary,  we  put  the  volume  in  a 
letter-press  with  the  back  edge  projecting  about 
an  inch,  resting  it  on  a bottom  board  to  keep 
the  projection  flat  while  drilling. 

We  then  mark  the  holes  thru  the  eyelets  in 
the  cover,  setting  them  in  from  a quarter  to 
half  an  inch  and  having  the  bottom  of  the 
volume  flush  with  the  cover,  and  bore  holes 
thru  to  the  board  with  a one-eighth-inch  drill. 
We  next  remove  from  the  press  and  sew  the 
numbers  together  and  tie.  All  this  is  the  same 
as  in  Mr.  Fison’s  plan. 

Next  we  prepare  the  back,  cutting  it  to  size 
and  allowing  about  a half  inch  beyond  the 
holes,  and  we  type  on  it  the  title  and  the  vol- 
ume number,  etc.  For  the  back  we  are  using 


* Based  on  a talk  before  the  Conference  of  Eastern 
College  Librarians,  26  -November,  1921. 


binders’  cloth  or  library  buckram.  This  costs 
at  present  fifty  cents  a yard  and  makes  this 
item  run  to  between  three  and  eight  cents  per 
volume — instead  of  one  or  two  cents,  as  would 
be  the  case,  if  Kraft  paper  were  , used — but  it 
is  neater  and  more  durable. 

Then  we  fit  on  the  back  and  a pair  of  Gay- 
lord Multibinders  of  pressboard  of  the  nearest 
size?"  tHmlhing  if  ^necessary  in  a photo-cutter. 
We  lace  on  with  the  same  cord  used  in  the 
sewing.  We  like  best  the  cord  supplied  by  Gay- 
lord with  the  binders:.  JVile  nrand  b'raided  lisle 
'thread  No.  C.  J'he Belfast *~tw'ine  ~lMo~  533  rec- 

*om mended  by  Mr.  Fison  is  good  but  we  find 
that  it  cuts  itself  readily  if  pulled  too  hard. 

For  height  sizes  of  the  Multibinders  we  used 
the  schedule  worked  out  by  the  Binding  Com- 
mittee of  the  Massachusetts  Library  Club,  given 
in  their  Bulletin,  v.  11,  no.  3,  March-June,  1921. 
The  heights  which  we  have  found  very  adapt- 
able are:  *91/2";  *10";  11";  *12";  13";  14"; 
and  17";  the  starred  ones  being  those  most 
used.  The  widths  we  used  for  these 
were  6 y2";  7";  8";  9";  9l/2";  10";  and  12", 
respectively. 

Our  costs  have  been  about  the  same  as  the 
schedule  given  by  Mr.  Fison,  except  that  there 
must  be  added  the  pair  of  Multibinders  which 
average  twenty  cents.  This  makes  accost  of 
sixty  cents  a volume.  Our  initial  costs  were 
higher,  as  a new  worker  and  much  experi- 
menting slowed  up  the  work,  but  for  the  first 
two  months  the  cost  per  volume  was  only  sev- 
enty-four cents,  and  this  has  now  been  reduced 
close  to  the  estimated  figure. 

Of  course  if  we  make  a wrong  estimate  and 
a volume  receives  more  usage  than  this  bind- 
ing will  stand,  there  is  nothing  to  prevent  it 
from  being  bound  in  the  regular  way.  But  we 
expect  to  place  on  the  shelves  enough  volumes 
of  magazines*  in  the  B.  U.  Bindings  in  the 
course  of  the  year  to  save  over  one  thousand 
dollars  on  our  annual  binding  bill,  and  these 
volumes  will  be  as  readily  accessible  for  occa- 
sional reference  as  if  they  were  sewn  and  bound 
in  the  usual  way  at  a cost  of  two  dollars  or 
more  a volume. 

F.  K.  W.  Drury. 


Reproduced  from  the  Library  Journal,  Jan.  1,  1922. 


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March  1,  1922 


A Librarian  Visits  Our  Factory 

This  Is  What  He  Saw 

A librarian  spent  a day  in  our  factory  last  week.  Whether  he  likes 
to  see  the  wheels  go  around  or  whether  he  was  interested  to  see  his 
library  supplies  being  manufactured,  we  don’t  know, — but  here  are  some 
of  the  things  he  saw : 

Machines  with  almost  human  intelligence  that  take  great  strips  of 
paper  and  neatly  brush  a narrow  strip  of  paste  along  one  edge  to  make 
date  slips  and  a dozen  other  things  you  use.  Close  by  were  happy  look- 
ing girls  feeding  long  spools  of  gummed  cloth  into  machines  that  made 
them  into  the  famous  Gaylord  Double  Stitched  Binder. 

Setting  the  machines  which  cut,  rule,  punch  and  stack  catalog  cards 
is  a matter  of  great  precision.  When  the  machinery  starts,  great  sheets 
of  the  finest  card  stock  fly  through  the  cutter  and  come  out  in  long  strips. 
Again,  they  pass  through  the  rolls  and  are  cross-cut  into  their  final 
dimensions,  then  through  the  ruling  machine,  delicately  adjusted  so  that 
the  fine  points  which  rule  the  lines  can  not  swerve  from  the  correct  posi- 
tion ; finally  to  the  punching  machine,  where  a quick  pressure  punches! 
thousands  at  a time.  In  a few  moments  they  are  banded  into  packages! 
of  a hundred,  placed  in  boxes  and  are  ready  to  send  to  you. 

But  the  most  remarkable  machine  in  our  factory  is  the  automatic  self- 
feeding press  which  makes  all  kinds  of  printed  cards.  Each  card  is  lifted 
from  the  top  of  the  pile  by  an  air  suction  and  it  is  then  dropped  into  it 
correct  place  so  that  it  is  pressed  up  against  the  type  in  the  printin 
press.  Then  a pair  of  little  metal  fingers  pull  it  out  and  deposit  it  neatly 
on  the  pile  of  finished  cards.  This  machine  works  at  a tremendous 
speed,  and  it  never  makes  a mistake.  The  girl  who  tends  it  can  sit  down 
and  read  a book,  and  if  anything  goes  wrong,  the  machine  rings  a bell. 


Ordering  a copy  of  Tennyson’s  poems,  a customer  wrote  to  an  English  book- 
seller, “Please  do  not  send  me  one  bound  in  calf,  as  I am  a vegetarian.” — Bosto 
Transcript. 


The  girl  walked  briskly  into  the  store  and  dropped  her  bag  on  the  counterf 
“Give  me  a chicken,”  she  said. 

“Do  you  want  a pullet?”  the  storekeeper  asked. 

“No,”  the  girl  replied,  “I  wanta  carry  it.” — E.  & M.  Radiator. 


Our  History  Scrap  Book 

The  same  day  that  Gaylord  Brothers  started  to  manufacture 
supplies  for  libraries,  363  librarians  (a  then  record  attendance) 
gathered  in  Cleveland,  at  the  call  of  President  J.  C.  Dana,  to 
attend  the  A.  L.  A.  conference  of  1896.  As  the  A.  L.  A.  has 
grown  and  progressed  since  then,  so  has  Gaylord  Brothers  en- 
deavored to  keep  pace  with  library  progress  and  development. 


